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Article: Therei?1/2s life in the old dog yet.(Brief article)
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- Personal Computer World
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- November 27, 2008
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Byline: Gordon Laing
There's life in the old dog yet
The disadvantage of recycling parts from an existing system for a new build is that the old machine obviously stops working. But that's not to say it should be consigned to the scrapheap. I may have removed the Ram, graphics card and Raid controller from my old PC, but I still had a perfectly good motherboard with a Core2Duo E6700 processor, not to mention spare 300GB disks from my old Raid configuration. With an old graphics card and a modest amount of Ram, this could have become a great server, but I had other plans.
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